Roman Historical Myths
The Regal Period in Augustan Literature
Matthew Fox
Price: £63.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815020-6
Publication date: 18 January 1996
50 pages, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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| - 'F.'s subject is one that deserves careful study, and his attempt to apply modern theoretical discussions of historiography and ideology to ancient accounts of early Rome is welcome ... F. has made some good decisions ... and has some good and careful things to say about particular passages and texts.' - James E.G. Zetzel, Columbia University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8.2 (1997)
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This book offers an enlivening and sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the best-known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods - from Cicero in the De Republica
and the first book of Livy to Propertius IV and Ovid's Fasti
. The chapters on prose narrative uncover an uneasy tension between the desire for accurate historical representation
and the legendary character of traditional stories. In the light of modern theories of historical truth, the book argues that the narrative itself expresses a kind of belief in myths, and that this belief is in turn conditioned by historical circumstance. In this way, the accounts of Rome's regal period in both prose and verse bear witness to the uncertainties and upheavals at the end of the
republic. At the same time, Dr Fox argues for a more sophisticated relationship between political and textual reality, and concludes that interpretations of political subversion need to be balanced by the sense of destiny and desire for the reinterpretation inherent in recounting the origins of Rome.
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Readership: Scholars and advanced students of ancient Roman history and Latin.
| Authors, editors,
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Matthew Fox, Lecturer in Classics, University of Birmingham
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